Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 140-minute teaching from a 2005 Taiwan retreat, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how refuge transforms ordinary morality into a direct cause for enlightenment. He then shifts to the heart of the practice: doing every activity with the intention to benefit others rather than yourself. This seemingly simple shift makes your daily life profoundly meaningful, purifies karmic obscurations, and accumulates boundless merit for all sentient beings. He walks through practical confessions and dedications, then teaches the remarkable benefits of a particular mantra — those who hear, see, or touch it have even severe past karma purified and become protected by all Buddhas and Dharma protectors. Throughout, he emphasizes making your voice, body, and actions serve others’ welfare. For retreat practitioners.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: z Taiwan (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2005-06-11
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 140.5 minutes
Words: ~2,651
Without refuge, those who are living in the morality, but without refuge, you know, then that’s not special. Those who have religious śamatha, purification, Hindus, that’s, you know, Another another religion like Hindus, meditation, but there’s no refuge and so that’s not special. So higher tendency higher tendency higher tendency but having to reach it, then morality becomes special. Because of the become then something a higher quality of wisdom. So that then when you go to bed, I say also making prayer that may all sentient beings achieve the dharmakaya of the Buddha.
So maybe stop here. Mhmm. Mhmm. Mhmm. So just to say, Yeah.
Let stop there. Mhmm. So the so this part, they’ll be so they they’ll be more instructional coming. So this is what to to be used, especially during this retreat. Of course, anybody want to practice daily life, that’s unbelievable, but the so during this retreat, then this must must practice this see this with the with the with the activities what as we do activities, then thought to benefit others.
You see? So, basically, what it is is that so so the the mind rather doing rather doing everything for, you know, for self. Well, also happiness then here, by by doing this practice, you see said, they hear the attitude, think of others. You’re doing this for others. What do do?
So so it becomes so you’re doing activities with the thought of benefit others, so it becomes a cause to achieve enlightenment and you collect it with number of sentient beings uncountable, so you collect a numberless merit, and it becomes and as it’s done for others, then it becomes a great, very powerful purification, purifying the negativities of the karma. So that so it has a so it has a very makes the life most happy and a very healthy mind. The happiest, say, most healthy most healthy life mind like that. So I’m so I’m gonna stop here. So when you get up, what’s other other one?
Like somebody fell down in the, you see, the, you see, in the hole of fire or some mud or something, then you save, you bring out. So that so the I bring I bring the sending brings out of saṃsāra’s mud. I think the So yeah. That whichever way one one as I mentioned I just mentioned different thing, but whichever way something related that’s the main main thing, so benefits sentient beings. Yeah.
We’re gonna chant the mantra, please. Yeah. Mhmm. So the side that two times. Paying homage to.
It’s in the cart. It’s in the cart. No. This side. The front.
Yeah. So the side. Bring all sentient beings in the heart, all the sufferings and problems. And if purifier they have to they have to liberate numberless from all the samsaric causes, bring them to, say, enlightenment And freedom numberless from the samsaric cause, bring numberless to enlightenment. To protect that one.
Then for success extra for successfully practicing the path. I’m going to wish you for a long time before success of that. Then that and then to fulfill the last aim. Immediate to fulfill all his holy wishes. And and then you see, what about projects or we we wish you to complete within that?
Mhmm. Then, know, the see, the five hundred foot Maitreya statue to be constructed, to complete as quick as possible about this, in the middle of the country. We must be the future of all the to receive all all the needs, all the funding for that. Then to receive all need all the funding for all the rest of the projects in the organization. That which I mentioned at the times.
Because it needs all of our findings. That’s really a second. So to to illuminate this world, to liberate, see, many numberless sentient beings from suffering, bring them to enlightenment. So that didn’t and have the that you have a friend or somebody who’s very sick or dying or whatever. Or remember to, actually, for the lama to have long life or the to have good birth.
Spread generally bodhicitta, spread generally bodhicitta in everyone’s heart. And this is all then. Yeah. The war, famine, or the war, or the bombing, suicide bombing, or the war, famine, disease, torture, poverty, dangers of fire, water, earthquake, all these tsunamis. All this to be stopped, that the danger happening to be stopped immediately.
Yeah. And that nobody experience it forever. So with this, yeah, purpose this and then then we request to Śākyamūni Buddha. Now as as I just mentioned now then to succeed all these wishes, make strong prayer to Śākyamūni Buddha, Śākyamūni Buddha. So as I mentioned so many times, text is you when you have problems, then you make offering and the from the heart, make a strong request and all your wishes will be fulfilled.
So that. The nectar, the the nectar emitted from all gurus, Buddhas, Dharma, Sangha, purified all the obscurations. This and spirit harm. Yeah? Or that harm out of the heart.
Then as well as also. You know, you can think also sentient beings, as I mentioned before, all in in your heart. You know? On one disc or something, then purify it altogether. Two times.
Now you can recite the the last there’s one more prayer. Up to the mantra. Up to the mantra, there’s some prayer. In the card. And then do the short prayer, and she can lead it.
The short one. Of course, you know, when there’s time, more number, more the long mantra, this one, beside more, of course, is very good. Receiving received qualities, and I have more concentrated quality. I think the whole path is an adventures and something like that. The typically projected plan.
Okay. Okay. Yeah. It’s yes. Yeah.
Yeah. Of all the leaders of the world and then the heart of all the terrorists or the people who have reached a thought to harm others. And but it’s the was a heart generated made to increase. I do all that three times, may I, may I, may I become like this. I may able to may I say ever may may I able to be, may I become only like you, the Buddha, like your holy body, like your holy life span, and pure land, and and the the holy name.
That immediately saves the living from the lower realms and also liberate from saṃsāra and the lower Nibbana brings enlightenment even in even just that name. So By heaven and prayer, as a place to to to you, a request to you, then whichever universe you already come to, please bless myself and those who have connection to me. Just being just being this universe because I have then may the cause of this and then leaving the suffering, may they get purified, may the people get rid of all delusions, and be free from saṃsāra. And many all these things, they must get healed and the people must be harmed, and by choice, this thing is May nobody see. Then as a measure of the war of famine, disease, torture, poverty, things that are happening on earth.
Earthquakes and so forth, may they be stopped immediately. I mean, nobody in this world experience all this forever. They do three times. That’s it. And since the beings able to meet only perfectly qualified man, good in all the lifetimes, and to be able to see only enlightened by permission from his to be able to fulfill the holy wishes immediately by the blessings of the guru in all future lifetimes.
All the past karmas, may they be purified. They who exist, but do not exist from their own side, who are totally empty. May the I who exists, but does not exist from its own side, who is totally empty. Achieving. But as said, this is the state, which exhibit which do not exist from the side, which is totally empty.
The who exist but who do not exist from their own side, who are totally empty, to the to the kappa the state and then which do not doesn’t exist from the side, which are totally empty. But who do not exist from the side, who is totally empty. General teaching may be spread in all the direction. May be flesh, as well. May it grow in the hearts of all beings, in the hearts of one’s students and also family members who will benefit this organization and the hearts of all those who give up their life, to serve their life to the organization, and to serve others, and then everyone in this world.
So and maybe. Maybe. How do say maybe? Certain things, this issue. Not We said that to you tomorrow, but not not a hundred percent sure.
Purpose of my purpose of my life is to free the numberless sentient beings from this oceans of saṃsāra suffering and bring them bring And bring them in full enlightenment. I must free numberless beings from all the suffering causes myself. To free numberless hell beings from all numberless animals from all the suffering causes, bring to enlightenment by myself. If I’m now in the holy realm, even even the minutes, it’s so long, it’s most unbearable. So this like I said, like I said, many, say, hundred and half years or years, so unbelievable.
And that generally karma to practice, not only in this life, from the very beginning of birth, not only that, particularly karma that can ripen at the time of death, from beginning to end of this life. Not only that it’s definite, that that can happen that death can happen even today in any minute even today in any minute. In any minute. So, therefore, I can be there anytime. In any minute.
Therefore, I must purify all the the the karma of the downfalls. Immediately, without leaving a second. Therefore, I’m gonna do this prostration. They’re confessing their the downfalls. For the for the benefit of every health beings, hunger ghost, animals, human beings, as well as as well as all the sentient beings.
So So here at the end, then Maitreya emptiness. So we have the empty, then that that covers Read that. Read the speech. The the the the few other different mantras beside Om Ruchira and Guhyasamāja. That’s one nice to say.
The the number of mantras, the prayer what we’ll be doing is million times. On that that that is all. And that that that that that that one to other other mantras. It’s not that one has to decide all. It’s the yeah.
What, you know, what you want in the side. One, So it increased many, so many tens of millions of times. Then to make the life to make the life part of the part of the part of the practices in the daily life to be meaningful father sentient beings, but the power of mantras. So, this mantras exalted, stainless exalted being, stainless pure one. So by having to set this mantra, the in the beginning of the day, then then any any other sentient being who talked to this person, then their five uninterrupted karma get purified.
Killed father, mother, extremely extremely heavy negative karma, then killing an arhat, liberation from the suffering that caused delusion including the seed of delusion, killing those beings, and even harmed Buddha, caused some blood to the Buddha. And caused disunity among all the Sanghas. Two groups of Sangha caused. Of these five uninterrupted, they come up. They come up without interruption.
You get born right after death. You get born without interruption of the life. Get immediately born in the hell realm, their lowest hell realm. Which is heavy suffering in the health realm, in so heavy suffering, the whole entire suffering, which lasts for lifespan, those hell beings, one eon even. So, so other sentient beings who talk to this person, they, their five uninterrupted karmas get purified.
Anyone, another other sentient beings will hear the voice of that person, and even they receive shadow from this person. Anybody who touches this person’s body, it purifies. Even though it not only purifies this life need to come up, it purifies also past life karma that was to ripen. And then that that person doesn’t that person doesn’t unable to be harmed by the spirit possessions. That person cannot be harmed by poison and so forth, and thunder, the lightning, the thunder.
And this person will be protected by all the Buddhas, guided and looked after by Brahma for the means of living. Brahma looks after the means of living of the person, of that person. And then all the devas, those who are Dharma protectors, Dharmapalas, they all protect that person. And the person also doesn’t get harmed by the black magic mantras, black magic, you know, the activities, you know, kind of stuff, things, materials or things that are prepared to harm, see. Any activity that and this this mantra is put inside the stupa, then any sentient beings who hears about the stupa, who sees the stupa, who touches the stupa, Even the earth, dust, wind, touch the stupa, goes away, touch any being, the those other sentient beings, they get liberated.
Their evil, their negative karma, they get liberated from the lower realms, and they get born into a human realm. They receive their human body, and they will never get, say, won’t be reborn. See, their life doesn’t go down, doesn’t go back, doesn’t go down. So, that is that is mantras that can recite. Just so you just in the daily lives, Just by the way, so easy to benefit us.
March. Then the Buddha gathered all of them and granted advice. That true. To say true bodhisattvas, mahasattvas, eliminate all the defilements. They complete eliminating all the defilements.
And also honor the secret one, Vajrapāni, and for guardians, and honor of the, say, unforgettable, the Brahma. Oh, think I’m not unforgettable. The honor of this Lord Brahma. And then, devas of Indra, these are the form realm devas. Then devas of the martial arts, so forth.
Hindu Hindu the Hindu gods, Mahadeva. So forth then, I say, the holy beings, I said, I hand over this, the heart of this the king of secret mantras to you, and you always should offer service to this one. Preserve it and put it in the jewel container. In Tibetan it is called sampu. Don’t know how that is that translates, jewel container.
In Tibetan called sampu. Put it inside this, and then propagate it, you know, propagate it to all others, unceasingly reveal it to sentient beings. If you make other thing is to hear and to see this mantra, then in this mind, I think, if you do that, then you’re you’re say, I think this I think this might be because already mentioned in the beginning, the other sentient beings, you know, we hear, we see. I mean, they they probably aren’t actually gonna come get paper. So, I’m not sure, it could be the person who hears, who sees the mantra, or it could be the person who caused all the sentient beings to see and to hear, you see.
It could be that, you know. The person who in the fire, and then they can get purified. But they are mainly to really show what you can do with this mantra. So that’s one of the easy way to benefit other persons in the daily life. You know, just to associate with other people, communicate with other people, mix with people, life.
However, doing various activities was, by the way, how to make your life. Your voice and your body are meaningful to others and near ones. That’s